American schools tend to separate neuroscience more from psychology-there's been a great upswing also in Cognitive Science, which might also be where a lot of students go.

If you were in America, I would accuse you of having blundered into the realm of the most despised students on campus: pre-meds. This is one of those traditional rivalries, like the one between sociology and history. Actually, it doesn't surprise me that, in a biology course, you might have run into that sort of problem. Biologists tend to teach like that to undergrads, for reasons that are a bit too complicated to discuss without me giving it a great deal of thought. I'm sure I'll step on even more toes there than I do here.